> Guido> Sorry Skip, but many others pointed out early on in this
> Guido> discussion that dependency discovery is the important issue.
>> Which distutils doesn't do, but for which make and/or compilers have
> done for years.
That same imprecise language again that got you in trouble before! :-)
Make doesn't do dependency discovery (beyond the trivial .c -> .o).
There may be a few compilers that do this but I don't think it's the
norm.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)